Alaska Highway baby!

---current location Seward Alaska---



6/19 -6/24

We now embark to one of our bucket list places ALASKA baby! Well not yet but the journey starts in Dawson Creek  Canada. This is mile 0 of the Alaskan Highway.We spent the day walking the town and looking at the sights. For being such a well known place they did not have to much to do so we ended up at their community pool which was awesome. We think that since they have so many months of cold they need to have an awesome community center. This was like a water park but for dirt cheap. We all had a blast swimming and playing with the bubbles. Next day we hit the road to start this long stretch of road to get to Alaska. Along the four day journey we saw beautiful scenery, ate some good pie and cinnamon buns (they love them up in these parts). Really got the sense of what it means to be rural. Long stretches between each town and what we mean by town is one store that caters to all. Didn't have to pay a night for lodging. You can camp at any pull off up here it's crazy. We got to experience the Liard Hotsprings, drive through snow and over the famous   Kiskatinaw bridge; a three span wooden truss bridge with a 9 degree curve and ate some fantastic fish and chips in Whitehorse (the capital of the Yukon). We saw a bunch of black bears and bison and saw numerous others RV peeps making the pilgrimage to AK. Granted most of them were two decades older than us but we are the sideshow wherever we go now. On 6/24 we drove into Tok Alaska! We made it and not once did we run out of gas 😀. We ended up hanging out at Moon Lake for the evening and then free docked outside of Dawson Junction the official end of the Alaskan Highway. Next stop Fairbanks.














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